Angels are special creatures. We often speak of them as spiritual creatures. Creatures of a higher order men. They are creatures “greater in might and power” than men, 2Pe 2:11 WEB, but they are indeed “creatures.” That is to say, created beings. God is the One (1Tim 6:13) …
“who
alone has immortality, dwelling in unapproachable light; whom no
man has seen, nor can see: to whom be honor and eternal power. Amen.
”
1Tim 6:16 WEB
Others, all others, live or die at His good pleasure. The angels are not god or gods. As Yahweh Himself said,
“See now that I, even I, am he,
There is no god with me:
I kill, and I make alive;
I wound, and I heal;
There is none who can deliver out of my hand.”
Deut 32:39 WEB
ALL others in the universe are ALL beings, created by this single God, the Father, the Son and the Holy Spirit.
“1
In the beginning
was the Word,
and the Word was with God, and
the Word was God.
2 The same was in the beginning with God. 3 All
things
were made through
him. Without him
was not anything made that has been made.
4 In him was life, and the life was the light of men.”
Jn 1:1-4
WEB
Angels have functions in
ruling over and directing
various parts of creation.
In the occult (religion that is secret or semi-secret) and in occult literature, angels are often referred to as “thrones or dominions or principalities or powers.” These terms refer to both their authority and power under God. Also the apostle Paul uses these terms to refer angels, many of whom have turned to become the enemy of all mankind. Paul says,
“For
our wrestling is not against flesh and blood, but against the
principalities, against the powers, against the
world’s rulers of the darkness of this age, and against the
spiritual hosts of wickedness in the heavenly places.”
Eph
6:12 WEB
Paul is indeed talking about angels.
But they are indeed CREATED beings, NOT gods.
We have already seen that all things were created through Jesus (Jn 1:3). Paul is even more specific and says of Jesus the Christ,
“For
by him were all things created, in the heavens and on the
earth, things visible and things invisible, whether
thrones or dominions or principalities or
powers; all things have been created through him,
and for him.”
Col 1:16 WEB
Wow! What a dramatic statement of fact, of the basic creaturehood of angels, ALL the angels. Paul goes even further and says of Jesus, that
“He is before all things,
and in him all things
are held together.” Col 1:17 WEB
In other words, what makes both all the universe, and men, and animals and fish and birds and angels hold together is Jesus Himself. In fact it says basically the same thing in Hebrews.
“His
Son is … upholding all things by the word of his power,
…”
Heb 1:3 WEB
WEB
is the World English Bible, a copyright free revision
of the
original ASV American Standard Version 1901